Primary & Secondary Education

Bain works with innovative education nonprofits and school systems to create better opportunities for underserved students to lead choice-filled lives. We are committed to supporting high-impact organizations looking to transform education around the world and drive lasting, systemic change.

Chris
Bierly

Global Practice Leader

Graham
Elton

Practice Leader – EMEA

Abigail
Smith

Principal

Bain has partnered with KIPP Foundation and 10+ KIPP regions since 2010 to help triple the number of students served by the US’s largest charter network and improve student outcomes—further boosting college graduation rates, already 4X the national average for low-income students.

Bain has been working with Denver Public Schools since 2014 on improving its teacher talent-management strategy. We helped the district develop a career progression model linking performance, compensation and leadership roles to recruit and retain top teachers, fill hard-to-staff roles in high-need schools and magnify each teacher’s impact beyond their classroom.

Bain worked with Ark Academies to codify its school network model and account for its wide range of results after a period of rapid expansion. We then helped them develop a playbook for consistent school success, align on options for future organizational structures and adopt a dashboard tool to monitor and diagnose organizational health.

Bain partnered with the Ministry of Education in Brazil to assess the effectiveness of full-time secondary education versus the current part-time model. Our work and subsequent support of the full-time model rollout led to new legislation that will reach half a million students and set a new standard for education in Brazil.